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@Double_R
The media is made up of private entities who all get to decide what they cover.
So maybe stop worshipping oligarchic propaganda? Just a thought if you care about democracy for the people and not just the usual clown show the oligarchs put on every 4 years to appease the increasingly restless masses.
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Censoring on MSM and debate venues and jailing your opposition are "features" of Democracy then?
It's hard for people to feel free to choose when they are forced into false dichotomies.
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@WyIted
Democrats aint at all about "protecting Democracy" or even all Democrats!. They only protect the Democrats that preserve the ruling class.
No shit, powerful people protect their own asses. Every failed country has their own oligarchy masquerading as "the people"
If a law has to be bent here and there, a rule needs to be reinterpreted, safeguards and balances need to be quietly removed, well, that's just how we "protect" shit.
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A vote for Biden or Trump is a vibes vote because these people don't have principles. The right says, "free and fair elections", the left says, "protecting democracy" but neither party head debated people in the primaries, so it's all empty slogans meant to appeal to the sheep.
Spot on. Uniparty gonna uniparty.
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@WyIted
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@WyIted
Yes, Obama’s economy which Trump inherited was great.
This is such a dumb excuse for any bad president. I am so sick and tire of this inane "dog ate my homework" excuse from both sides. It implies that not only can a president do nothing good for the economy while in office for 4 years, that he could also never do anything bad in 4 years to hurt the economy. Only a cult-like toddler brain could imagine such a lame excuse.
Trans rights isn’t a science issue. It’s about respecting people for who they are. This framing by the political right of trans rights conversations as some denial of empirical reality is just plain stupid.
It's gone so far above and beyond "respecting people" and "equal treatment"
Straight people don't get a month dedicated to them. Straight people don't get to imprison gay people if they leave skid marks on the "straight pride flag" that government officials painted on the public street. Straight people don't have classrooms decked out in heterosexual family propaganda. Straight people don't get reminded how wonderful, and how great it is to be in the elevated and protected class of being straight and encourage people to join them in that special class at an early age when they have no clue how society functions except when they are excluded from group activities. Reverse discrimination is still discrimination, and isn't anywhere close to "equal and fair treatment." This is literally mandated time to glorify a social class with the threat of prison time. A society that glorifies mental illness will become a dysfunctional society, and the adults in the room need to speak up and defy the government powers that want to pick at the corpse of a dying society.
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@WyIted
Anything other than the current far-left elites would be an improvement.
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@WyIted
New York has a huge problem with criminals still wearing masks and getting away with crime. Now they are trying to make a ban on facemasks except for "medical exemptions"
Somehow, every criminal curiously has the exact same "medical exemption" to the mask ban....
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@WyIted
Correct, a lot of the science it is founded on was debunked in the 60s. So they are working with shit that literally was disproven over 50 years ago.
Hell, most democrats are relying on long debunked eugenics science from 100 years ago to base their skin policies...in 2024... bunch of racists trusting junk science that says you don't know what a computer is or can't get a photo ID if your skin is black...
Party of science my asshole. You can tell who is a democrat today simply if they are wearing a Fauci face diaper in 2024 thinking it will flatten the curve.
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cmon man, you gotta let elites be elite.
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@Double_R
What’s new is the utter shamelessness and lack of accountability on the right. What republican politicians have figured out is that their base not only doesn’t care about reality, they want to be lied to.
I have been warning you for years what would happen when the shoe goes on the other foot. Now both glass houses come crashing down.
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@WyIted
Dept. of Education and NEA union operate under Scientology. (fake science) such as eugenics and intelligence based on skin color.
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@Double_R
Right. The guy who stood on the world stage and coward to Putin taking his word over that of US Intelligence, and the guy who is more aligned with Russia than any US politician since before WW2, the guy who gushes over Putin every single time his name comes up… that’s the guy Putin fears.
Objectively so. Turn out that the words the MSM doesn't allow you to selectively hear are the only ones that really matter with foreign diplomacy. As it always has been and always will be. Hearsay from the agents of Orangemanbad actually works well with the uninformed plebs, but not so much with foreign oligarchs.
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@Double_R
the guy who gushes over Putin every single time his name comes up… that’s the guy Putin fears.
Maybe world leaders are not as susceptible to propaganda as you are... maybe "OMG TEH NUKLEAR CODEZ" propaganda doesn't actually work for intelligent world leaders...
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and by the time he was no longer the sitting President that means he gets to claim that any prosecution against him is the weaponization of the justice system to lock up political opponents.
So a rogue state judge would seem more legitimate prosecuting a federal crime than SDNY. Clown world logic.
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@Double_R
We know Trump was involved and we know why.
It's too bad the DOJ never charged Trump for that crime then. Maybe they could have saved democracy and the judicial system in one fell swoop. Too bad.
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@thett3
Even shifting the goalposts to "Cohen said Trump was guilty!"
Cohen isn't a judge or a prosecutor. Unless he was Federally charged for being an accessory, Trump remains innocent.
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Which ones?
The ones Biden stole, like keeping the tax cuts, and suddenly deciding to secure the border months before the election.
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@Best.Korea
What do you mean "losing the war"
Ukraine doesn't control the Donbas, it has already lost.
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You mean good news. People in power in NATO want to create WW3.
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@TheUnderdog
Biden and Trump will do the same thing. They both should get criticized here
Did you even take the time to read the title?
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@FLRW
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@thett3
They literally locked Cohen up just so Cohen could say the name "Trump" for the record. If that's how a person is decidedly in violation of the law, when a felon simply points a finger, says a name, and acts as a one-man judge and jury, then we have crossed over into the Salem witch trials.
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@Double_R
Ah, so merely being charged for a crime is enough to substantiate further action taken by another legal entity.
Finally you get it.
I don't give a shit if Trump is innocent or guilty, but not charging him, yet calling it an "underlying crime" is beyond banana republic territory. You're just making shit up just for the sake of government corruption.
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@Double_R
Because you value democracy right?
I value peace. The time where an imperial USA could just force its version of government on other cultures with their military is fast coming to an end. The chaos of corrupt governments USA created globally over the past 5 decades by force is legion. The rest of the world is done with the USA.
Everyone seems to have forgotten what imperialistic mega-alliances trend toward from the clear example of WW1. We do not need to create mega allies for Russia like China and India by supporting escalation over reconciliation. Imperialistic NATO should have allowed Donbas independence in 2014 just like Austria should have allowed Serbian independence in 1914. Instead, 100 years later, we are headed for a repeat.
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@Double_R
OJ was charged with murder. Trump wasn't charged of rape.
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@Best.Korea
Really, like it or not, Saddam was keeping ISIS in control
More importantly, it was a check on Iran. Now we got a whole 'nother mess with Hamas. Unintended consequences
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@WyIted
FLRW doesn't really understand his own ramblings. Like Joe Biden, words just manifest.
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@Swagnarok
We won in Iraq, BTW...
Lolwut?
Isis is still present, the current government is absolutely corrupt, and US can't depend on any cooperation.
It's another Afghanistan. Period.
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@Best.Korea
If it's irrelevant, why should Americans pay a trillion dollars a year for nothing?
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We now pay 1 trillion every year just to pay the interest on the debt. That's a years worth of military spending!
Why are Americans OK with just throwing money away?
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@thett3
What's scary is the E Jean trial essentially used the same tactic, insinuating rape when it was never charged.
The entire point of both cases was the labels. Rapist, Felon.
Justice was an afterthought.
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@FLRW
Murphy's law demands that life exists somewhere else.
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@thett3
The important point is that the authorities who actually have jurisdiction over this didn't pursue it. You not liking what you think is their reasoning has no bearing on what happened. There was an inquiry, the relevant authorities looked into it, and the inquiry was closed. The correct jurisdiction not prosecuting someone isn't a "technicality"...its the furthest possible thing from a technicality.
It's essentially the same as a "hung jury"
In any case, it by no means indicates Trump violated anything.
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@Double_R
the question is whether NY can determine whether the NY crime someone did commit is considered more egregious because they did it with the intent of violating federal law.
And the SCOTUS will decide if that is Constitutional; to have a state jury decide what a federal violation is. Not Merchan.
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@thett3
they made the correct decision. The problem is…pretty much everything else about the case lol
Exactly! No chance in hell this case doesn't get thrown out on multiple Constitutional violations. It's just so weird Biden's handlers thought this was going to help him. People on the fence clearly saw this as partisan, petty, and political. The swing state polls show it.
I think in one swing state Biden is only getting 56% of the black vote as of now, that's massive since he needs 80+% to have a chance.
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@thett3
And then it goes back to your point. If in fact Trump was innocent due to SDNY dropping the case, then how does a State court have the authority to ask the jury to decide if he violated federal law? If there were learned people on the jury, every one of them would say "well he was never proved to have violated the law" but clearly Merchan wanted them to think it was legal for them to somehow "feel" he violated federal law, despite the fact Trump was never charged or convicted. That's really on Merchan and not the jury btw as the jury can't simply discard the judge's instructions. But in fact, if Merchan was asking the jury to weigh in on a federal violation, then that's a clear overreach of power. States do have certain powers to enforce federal laws within their jurisdictions, but the ultimate authority to interpret and enforce federal law lies with the federal government and the federal judiciary. And as you said, the federal judiciary already weighed in and passed by refusing to charge Trump. That's the Supremacy Clause in action. (yet another Constitutional violation)
When this was brought up in court, Merchan, a state judge, simply waved his hand and said he would be the final and only say as to how to handle federal violations, refusing any witness to defy his fiat. That's clearly not how the law is supposed to work.
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@thett3
is that neither the charges nor a conviction here require Trump to be guilty of violating federal law.
Please help me understand how this statement is not a blatant violation of the 6th amendment.... how is Trump not by default innocent without a guilty sentence???? (Biden's federal DOJ didn't even charge him!)
I really don't care if people think New York law is correct, it's still violating the Constitution!
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@Sidewalker
I doubt Jussie Smollet has enough money to pay Trump to stage a fake assault.
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But blacks are like autistics; they aren’t the most vocal for interests of their group.
Reminds me of this clip:
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but a second Trump presidency would almost guarantee it.
Which might not be a bad thing. If NATO is supporting civil wars in Ukraine and escalation toward an inevitable war with Russia over global dominance, perhaps getting out of the suicide pact would be a good thing. Let Europe pay the price for their global imperialism. They can finish the war they started when they subverted Ukrainian democracy in 2014.
Everyone seems to have forgotten what imperialistic mega alliances trend toward from the clear example of WW1. We do not need to create mega allies for Russia like China and India by supporting escalation over reconciliation. Imperialistic NATO should have allowed Donbas independence in 2014 just like Austria should have allowed Serbian independence in 1914. Instead, 100 years later, we are headed for a repeat.
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@Double_R
I wonder how you will feel when the Ukraine peace deal is signed under Trump.
Do you think we should have a nuclear war over Ukraine before November? It might still happen if Biden keeps slipping in the polls.
Putin must wake up everyday wondering if he sold his soul to the devil and had the memory of that transaction wiped so he could enjoy the results.
This is ridiculous fanfiction of the highest hyperbole. Let me know when you develop a nuanced understanding of the actual people in Russia.
Let me know what you think the Russian people see as actual existential threats to their homeland.
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Do you understand the difference?
Yeah, it's an unconstitutional law that will ultimately be struck down on a predictable 6th Amendment appeal so that rogue judges can't convict you of a crime that was never specified or charged.
since the DOJ was already prosecuting Micheal Cohen for it, which amounts to a tacit admission that Trump was in fact in violation of the law.
Like I can't even.... why are you hung up on the idea that in this country, you are guilty until proven innocent? That's not how the law works, yet every post reveals your denial of this basic fact. The DOJ dropped the FEDERAL case against Trump because it was clearly partisan, with no precedent, and it would have made Biden look like a subverter of democracy. Plain and simple. A dropped FEDERAL case means the person REMAINS innocent.
Hiding behind a rogue STATE judge didn't help the optics at all, and whoever on Biden's team that made the call to do this should go sit in time-out with the guy who told Dukakis it was a great idea to ride around on a battle tank.
What's so monumentally hilarious is that this blunder has cost Biden an additional 1 to 2% of the black vote where Trump is set to get near 20% of the black vote this year, which is unprecedented for ANYONE on the Republican ticket. At a time when Biden is already behind in swing states, this obvious pander to the TDS states that were already going to award Biden their electoral votes clearly didn't target the states he actually needed.
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I never created 9% inflation for 340 million people in my second year "in charge"
I'll count that as a roaring success. Compared to the 3 students I had to fail this year for not doing the class work, I'd say a massive success.
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Taral Patel, 30, the challenger running for county commissioner in Fort Bend County Precinct 3 just outside of Houston, was arrested for online impersonation last week after an investigation initiated by his opponent, incumbent Andy Meyers.
Jussie Smollett could have told him how impossibly hard it is to find real white supremacists in 2024....
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@WyIted
Yeah, it's probably run by committee then.
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@WyIted
I could see Obama telling the DNC to hold off on Newsome as he feels Newsome won't be as loyal to him if Obama becomes his advisor.
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